Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Sepia Saturday 219 : 15 March 2014

We have Wendy Mathias to thank for our Sepia prompt once again this week and she points us in the direction of domes, ceilings, arches, and significant buildings. The dome in question is that of the Reading Room of the Library of Congress in Washington. There is a rather pleasing pattern to the image - which dates from the very beginning of the twentieth century - so you might want to add patterns to the list of possible interpretations. Whichever direction you decide to go in, all you have to do is to post your post to your blog on or around Saturday 15 March 2014 and then link it to the Linky List below.

Here is a look forward at the next couple of Sepia Saturday prompts:

220 - 22 March 2014 : Statues and monuments feature in this theme suggestion from Postcardy and there are chairs and flags there as well.

221 - 29 March 2014 : Floods and water are possible interpretations for our theme picture this week

Now put all thoughts of statues and flooded fields aside and come back inside under that fine symmetrical dome and get your posts ready for Sepia Saturday 219.

I don't have any domes this week, but plenty of photographic interest, I'm sure.

My pet peeve is those who don't bother to leave a comment after reading my contribution. You may well have visited but if you don't leave a comment, I won't know. These comments are important feedback for most of us - it's what keeps us going week after week - so please make the effort.

Alan, I think we ought to have an "Open Addendum" Sepia prompt for things we forgot & left out of past posts. I've noticed lately some of us forgetting to include things in our orig. posts so we either add on to the orig. post after we've already posted it, or post a separate addendum. I know, myself, I've added forgotten things to the following week's post. An "Open Addendum" prompt, then, would allow everyone to 'catch up' by posting the things they forgot to include in past posts? Of course there should maybe be a time limit - but maybe not? It's an idea anyway.

Sepia Saturday

Launched by Alan Burnett and Kat Mortensen in 2009, Sepia Saturday provides bloggers with an opportunity to share their history through the medium of photographs. Historical photographs of any age or kind (they don't have to be sepia) become the launchpad for explorations of family history, local history and social history in fact or fiction, poetry or prose, words or further images. If you want to play along, all we ask is that your sign up to the weekly Linky List, that you try to visit as many of the other participants as possible, and that you have fun.